The President's decision comes in the wake of BJP MP Dushyant Singh's participation in an event where Kanika Kapoor, who is affected by COVID-19, was present on Sunday and the MP's subsequent meeting with the President.

However, the claim has brought the role of health officials under the scanner too since no health-care team visited her for daily check-ups, as the home quarantine protocol demands, government sources confirmed. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 positive cases in the State climbed to 26 with fresh cases from Noida and Moradabad, the latter a woman with a travel history from France. "Instead of staying at home, she went socialising Now after having tested positive, she has now put everyone who came in contact with her at risk", Agarwal told the Times of India.

It is being reported that a few days back she returned back from London and landed in Lucknow.

A report from the King George's Medical University said Mr. Jai Pratap Singh tested negative. Since then she attended a party at her maternal uncle's home in Kanpur, a city she apparently visited twice, and at least three parties in Lucknow, the police said.

Global coronavirus deaths exceed 10,000Spanish authorities have also been toughening their line against those citizens who do not respect the rules of confinement. Of those diagnosed, 52 percent were in hospital and around six percent were being treated in intensive care.

A doctor from Sanjay Gandhi PGIMS, where the Baby Doll fame singer is being treated has come out in the open and spoken about her treatment as well as facilities being provided to her.

On Friday night, the Lucknow police registered an FIR against Kanika under sections dealing with disobedience to orders promulgated by a public servant, and acts likely to spread disease unsafe to life.

The FIR was registered against the singer after the Lucknow chief medical officer filed a complaint. The couple is now on quarantine at their home in Delhi. "She violated the protocol and attended several social programmes". The singer, Kanika Kapoor is now under isolation in a Lucknow hospital. Several MPs announced on Friday that they were going into self-isolation.

Authorities have also traced those who attended at least three other gatherings the singer attended after coming to Lucknow.